Haiku: ‘October’

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Nature’s gorgeous fall
Autumn’s myriad colours
Stop my own decline

Copyright Francis Barker 2020

Haiku: ‘Driven’

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I’m driven to this
Desperation clears the mind
I know I’ll survive

Copyright Francis Barker 2020

*Somehow we will find peace.

El Greco [Doménikos Theotokópoulos] [1541-1614] — Marina Kanavaki (Reblog)

Greek painter, sculptor, and architect of the Spanish Renaissance El Greco [The Greek] Doménikos Theotokópoulos [Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος] was born, October 1st, 1541 in Candia, Crete*, Greece. ✻ part of the Republic of Venice and the center of Post-Byzantine art at the time ❦ El Greco is regarded as a precursor of both Expressionism and Cubism, […]

El Greco [Doménikos Theotokópoulos] [1541-1614] — Marina Kanavaki

THE BIRTHPLACE OF ROCK ‘N’ ROLL- SUN STUDIO-SUN RECORDS- MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE// SUN SOUNDS-“ROCKET 88”- JACKIE BRENSTON AND HIS DELTA CATS — slicethelife (Reblog)

706 Union Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee- the home of Sun Studio- considered by many to be the birthplace of Rock “N” Roll. Sam Phillips-[pictured above} founded Sun Studio and Sun Records in the early 1950’s. At first he recorded the blues artists such as B.B. King and Howlin’ Wolf got their start at Sun- but then […]

THE BIRTHPLACE OF ROCK ‘N’ ROLL- SUN STUDIO-SUN RECORDS- MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE// SUN SOUNDS-“ROCKET 88”- JACKIE BRENSTON AND HIS DELTA CATS — slicethelife

Close Encounters of the Alux Kind — The Unexpected Cosmology (Reblog)

I would reckon it was probably my third or fourth time running the circuit that I heard what I thought was a child laugh. After that I would hear either one or multiple children or people laugh quite frequently on my daily runs. We had been living in Guatemala for some time by that point…

Close Encounters of the Alux Kind — The Unexpected Cosmology